Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion StudiesBerg Publishers, 1 de des. 2004 - 144 pàgines This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies of fashion do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible material product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of the genius designer and explains, provocatively, that fashion is not about clothes but is a belief. There is an institutional structure, ignored by many fashion theorists, that has shaped and produced the fashion phenomenon. Kawamura further shows how the structural nature of the fashion system works to legitimize designers creativity and can make them successful. Newer fashion cities, such as Milan and New York, are the product of the fashion system that originated in Paris. Without that systemic structure, fashion culture would not exist. Fashion-ology provides a big picture approach that focuses on the social process behind fashion and its perpetuation. |
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
Sociological Discourse and Empirical | 19 |
13 | 28 |
Copyright | |
No s’hi han mostrat 6 seccions
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
adopt aesthetic analysis approach to fashion argues that fashion art worlds artist Becker become behavior Blumer Bourdieu century Chapter charismatic authority clothing system concept conspicuous consumption Consuming Fashion costume Country Music Crane create creative defined differentiation distinction dress elite explains fashion and clothing fashion change fashion consumption fashion designers fashion diffusion fashion dolls fashion emerges fashion magazines fashion production fashion professionals fashion show fashion system Fashion-ology French fashion functions garment gatekeepers groups Haute Couture identity imitation individuals industry innovation institutions Issey Miyake item of clothing Japanese designers Kawamura legitimate manufacturers mass material McCraken means modern objects organization Oxford Paris perspective phenomenon postmodern Prêt-à-Porter production of fashion Punk punk fashion Rei Kawakubo Roach-Higgins role Simmel social structure society sociological sociologists Sociology of Culture star status studies of fashion style symbolic symbolic interactionism taste theory of fashion tion treat fashion University Press values Veblen women Yohji Yamamoto York